The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1823 - Obama Wants Your Mom To Take More Tylenol

00:00:00.000 A bit of bright news heading into your weekend, and as we look ahead to the midterms,

00:00:03.880 two new polls show that the Democrat Party is the weakest that it has been

00:00:07.820 since this polling, at least, began. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. We have more information on the shooter at that ice facility in Dallas,

00:00:37.540 information that you will not have heard and will probably have heard contradicted,

00:00:40.660 if you hear anything about it at all, on liberal media. We'll get to that momentarily.

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00:02:10.320 He was the president a little while ago. Barack Obama comes out, and he's upset because in Republican

00:02:18.400 states, they're drawing up congressional districts in ways the Democrats don't like. Far less egregious

00:02:23.160 ways, by the way, than the Democrats are doing in the Democrat states where they're gerrymandering

00:02:27.560 until kingdom come. But Obama's really upset. And so he says, Republicans can't win on their policies,

00:02:34.580 so they're trying to dodge accountability by rewriting the rules. These lawmakers are going 0.82

00:02:40.540 out of their way to silence the will of the people and deliberately undermine our democracy,

00:02:43.580 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He's saying that Republicans are redistricting,

00:02:48.740 which Democrats are also doing. And they're doing in a far more egregious way, but whatever.

00:02:53.460 He's saying Republicans can't win on their policies.

00:02:58.320 I have a little poll here. This is a poll from Reuters Ipsos, so it's not a right-wing poll.

00:03:04.880 Which party has a better plan?

00:03:07.240 This poll was just conducted, over 1,000 U.S. adults, September 19th through the 21st, 2025.

00:03:17.100 Just go down the list. Which party has a better plan? Crime. 40% say Republicans, 20% say Democrats.

00:03:24.240 Blown out of the water. Two to one Republicans. Immigration. 40% Republicans, 22% Democrats. 0.59

00:03:30.980 Republicans leading Democrats. Almost two to one on immigration. Crime and immigration. Two top 0.72

00:03:38.040 political issues. Foreign conflicts. Oh, we'll hear Republicans have been pretty weak on foreign

00:03:42.760 conflicts. And oh, nope. 35% to Democrats, 23%. U.S. economy. U.S. economy, that ranks right up there

00:03:49.620 at the top of the list too. Republicans, 34%. Democrats, 24%. Trouncing the Democrats there as well.

00:03:55.340 How about gun control? Gun control is an issue that sometimes the Democrats

00:03:58.860 edge the Republicans out on, sometimes by a lot. Nope. Republicans, 32%. Democrats, 28%. I should

00:04:06.640 say there's a margin of error of three points here, but Republicans are winning even outside the margin

00:04:10.740 of error. Political extremism. Ooh, Democrats have an advantage here, right? They always blame the far

00:04:16.920 right, which they say commits three quarters of the political violence when you don't count any of the

00:04:20.300 left-wing political violence. So how are they? Oh, nope. That's the Republicans too. 30% to the Democrats,

00:04:25.280 that's 26%. So also outside the margin of error. How about, now this is, this one floored me.

00:04:31.060 Respect for democracy. This is one of those abstract issues that uses all these kind of slogans that the

00:04:37.660 Democrats are going to, they're going to win on, right? And Democrat, Democrat, democracy, it's right

00:04:41.220 there in the brand. 29% Republican, 31% Democrat. So the Democrats did kind of edge it out

00:04:51.180 within the margin of error. This is the issue, the abstract ideological issue that the Democrats went on.

00:05:01.440 It's a tie. It's a statistical tie. How about corruption? Oh, that awful, terribly corrupt. Nope, Republicans win

00:05:09.520 that, 27% to 21%. Healthcare? Okay, Democrats picked up healthcare, 34% to 25%. Because Democrats promise free

00:05:18.560 healthcare to everyone. And then they don't really deliver very well on healthcare, but they promise

00:05:21.860 it. Okay, women's rights. So like killing babies in the womb. Yeah, Democrats are winning on killing 1.00

00:05:26.260 babies in the room. And environment, you know, the sun monster killing us all with its evil rays within

00:05:32.760 10 years ago or whatever AOC said. Yeah, Democrats are winning there too. So on, healthcare is the only

00:05:38.600 real issue that the Democrats still have an advantage on. Women's rights is just a modern euphemism for 1.00

00:05:43.880 killing babies. So of course, Democrats are going to win there. The environment was just 0.61

00:05:47.180 really a term to point to the sun monster, another leftist ideology, climate change. So, okay, they win

00:05:53.580 there. Respect for democracy. Okay, it's a tie. Every other issue. And more importantly, every issue

00:06:02.820 that matters. Believe it or not, murdering babies does not rank at the top of the list for most voters.

00:06:10.660 Climate change does not rank at the top of the list for most voters. Respect for democracy,

00:06:15.580 which is a tie, does not rank it. You know what ranks at the top of the list? Crime,

00:06:20.120 immigration, the economy, foreign affair, all these foreign wars at least. All of those things

00:06:27.380 rank toward the top of the list. Republicans dominating on each of them. But it's not just

00:06:31.460 the Reuters-Ipsos poll. There's another poll just came out from Quinnipiac. Quinnipiac, not a right-wing

00:06:37.400 poll. 30% of voters nationwide say they have a favorable opinion of the Democrat Party.

00:06:44.920 54% have an unfavorable opinion.

00:06:48.760 This is, according to the survey's press release, this is the lowest favorability rating for the

00:06:56.500 Democratic Party since the Quinnipiac University poll began asking voters this question in 2008.

00:07:03.500 On top of that, to put this in perspective, we are now well into Trump's first year.

00:07:12.340 We are now looking ahead to the midterms, the midterms where typically the party out of the

00:07:16.240 White House crushes. And the Democrats are underwater on basically everything. And they've

00:07:21.840 got their worst unfavorability rating since Quinnipiac started taking this poll. This is a catastrophe

00:07:28.300 for Democrats. A catastrophe. I've never seen anything like it.

00:07:36.440 And Barack Obama has the temerity or the despair, I guess, the desperation to say,

00:07:42.860 well, these Republicans can't win on the issues. They can't win. They're winning on every issue,

00:07:47.440 just about, all the ones that matter. And you know how else you can tell

00:07:52.240 the Republicans are running on the issues? The Democrats are killing us. That's how you can tell.

00:07:58.540 You know how you could tell Trump was going to win the election in 2024?

00:08:01.380 Because the left kept trying to kill him. They wouldn't try to murder him if they could just

00:08:06.480 beat him at the ballot box. On top of the assassination attempts, they wouldn't have tried

00:08:12.380 to throw him in prison had they thought they could beat him at the ballot box. They wouldn't

00:08:15.700 have tried to kick him off the ballot if they thought they could beat him at the ballot box.

00:08:18.120 All of the other attacks, the leftist attacks that even the Atlantic magazine is pointing out

00:08:24.960 are coming from the left. The assassination of Charlie. If they thought they could beat him

00:08:30.620 fair and square in a debate, if they thought that he wasn't effective, if they thought he wasn't

00:08:34.940 persuading people, if they thought he wasn't shifting the youth vote 10 percentage points to the right

00:08:39.300 in 2024, they wouldn't have killed him. That's how you can tell. And the more that the Democrats

00:08:49.780 double down on this awful behavior, the more those numbers are going to keep shifting. Now,

00:08:55.040 there's a little caveat here for the Republicans. Voters trust the Republicans right now much more

00:09:01.560 than the Democrats on crime, on immigration, on foreign conflicts, on the economy, so on.

00:09:08.200 That means Republicans have to deliver. Not just press releases, not just commemorations,

00:09:14.960 not just good clips on Twitter. They need to round up criminals and seriously prosecute them.

00:09:22.620 They need to deport a lot of illegal aliens. And they've done a pretty good job on it. In fact, 1.00

00:09:26.460 I think a lot of Trump's critics, including on the right, on immigration, are really being dishonest

00:09:31.580 because the Trump roundup efforts have been pretty good, all things considered. But even just

00:09:37.540 the self-deportations that have turned up in multiple surveys now. What was it? A month ago,

00:09:44.600 by last count, 1.6 million illegal aliens left the country voluntarily. That's pretty good. 1.00

00:09:50.280 Got to keep it up. Got to keep the economy strong. So obviously, the Republicans still have

00:09:53.780 their work cut out for them. But as of now, the Republicans, by all historical precedent,

00:10:02.580 should get blown out of the water in the midterms. Doesn't look like that's going to happen.

00:10:06.700 And Obama just doubles down on the Ls. Obama just came out and he attacked Trump for spreading

00:10:13.820 supposed medical misinformation on the link between medications and autism.

00:10:17.980 So we have the spectacle of my successor in the Oval Office making broad claims around certain drugs

00:10:31.640 and autism that have been continuously disproved. And the degree to which

00:10:42.980 that undermines public health, the degree to which that can do harm to women 1.00

00:10:55.400 who are pregnant, the degree to which that creates anxiety for parents who do have

00:11:04.700 children who are autistic.

00:11:08.040 Okay, so what's he talking? He's talking about Trump and RFK coming out and saying

00:11:12.320 that they've discovered a link between acetaminophen, Tylenol, in the womb, and autism.

00:11:17.620 He said these have been repeatedly disproven. It's causing real harm to women by saying

00:11:22.660 they're the link between Tylenol and autism. Repeatedly disproven scientific misinformation.

00:11:27.900 Is that so? Because I got, here we go, here's a tweet from 2020, sorry, 2013, citing an article

00:11:37.620 from Reuters, too much Tylenol in pregnancy could affect development. It says acetaminophen use in

00:11:42.420 pregnancy linked to children's developmental delays. That comes from the ACOG. That is the

00:11:48.740 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Repeatedly disproven. That's Trump's, that's just

00:11:56.100 what Trump said. Trump said the thing that the ACOG said. The ACOG linking to an article

00:12:03.520 in Reuters. Same thing that Reuters said. How about Trump saying the same thing that

00:12:09.960 Johns Hopkins University said? Taking Tylenol during pregnancy associated with elevated risk

00:12:15.600 for autism and ADHD. Same thing that Harvard University School of Public Health said. Using

00:12:19.540 acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase children's autism and ADHD risk. Same thing that

00:12:23.280 Mount Sinai said. Same thing. The Columbia University said. Same thing, same thing, same

00:12:26.400 thing. Here you go. There's more. What are you talking about repeatedly disproven? It's been

00:12:31.060 repeatedly proven. And now the Department of Health and Human Services is coming out. And

00:12:38.540 now the White House is coming out. Forget about these guys. Tylenol admitted it. Tylenol.

00:12:44.200 March 7th, 2017. We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant.

00:12:49.100 He, you know, and there's misinformation saying that you pregnant women maybe shouldn't be taking 0.98

00:12:55.960 Tylenol. This is very harmful to pregnant women. No, Tylenol said, pray pregnant women. Don't take 1.00

00:12:59.980 our products. Barack Obama graduated from Harvard. Right. Your, your alma mater, but two of your alma

00:13:08.840 maters, actually, he started out at that college on the West Coast, but then he transferred into

00:13:12.140 Columbia and then Harvard for graduate school. Both Harvard and Columbia say acetaminophen is linked

00:13:17.320 to autism. So you're denying your own, your own sources of academic credentials. Why? How? How

00:13:25.080 could Barack Obama be this dense? I'll tell you how. I know exactly how. We'll get to it in one second.

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00:15:01.020 you got to listen to me. I went to Columbia and Harvard. By the way, I'm going to be speaking at

00:15:04.100 Harvard. I'm giving a speech at Harvard on Thursday, next Thursday. Get excited for that.

00:15:07.420 See you there. How could he be that dense? I'll tell you why. Because Trump is anti-science.

00:15:14.800 Full stop. That's just, that is the narrative. That is the premise from which Barack Obama

00:15:22.380 and the liberal media and the medical institutions are operating. They haven't proven that.

00:15:31.140 There's no evidence of that, but that is the premise. Trump is anti-science.

00:15:36.760 So if Trump says something, the opposite has to be the scientific view.

00:15:43.200 So you see how crazy this works, how crazily this works, rather. You can have the American

00:15:49.700 College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists come out and say, there is a link between acetaminophen

00:15:54.140 and autism. Trump will say, hey, the ACOG says there's a link between acetaminophen and autism.

00:16:03.840 The ACOG will then change its view. It has to, because Trump said it.

00:16:10.380 The group says A, Trump says A, the group says not A. That's how it works. That's the rule of thumb.

00:16:22.160 This is how the libs could change their opinion on COVID measures and COVID vaccines based on Trump

00:16:27.600 and based on Trump's supporters. Anything he says must be anti-science.

00:16:33.420 And this plays into the caricature they believe of Trump. They think that Trump is the caricature

00:16:39.980 that they've invented, which is that he's just a bumbling, babbling buffoon.

00:16:44.060 Never mind that he's reached the very heights of success in like four industries, right?

00:16:51.260 In real estate, in television, network television, top on network television,

00:16:58.660 television, in luxury brands, and oh, in politics. The first time he earnestly ran for president,

00:17:05.620 first time he earnestly ran for any public office, he won the highest office in the world

00:17:08.360 and then became the only one of two presidents in American history to serve non-consecutive terms.

00:17:15.220 But he's just a babbling idiot. He has to be. And so because they believe that,

00:17:19.560 they end up contradicting themselves. Okay, that's fine. It's funny though, because people think

00:17:23.420 Barack Obama, he's this clubbable, erudite, literate, oh boy, oh boy, he went to all the

00:17:30.740 fancy schools. He looks ridiculous. He looks ridiculous, but they all do. Okay. Speaking of

00:17:38.400 Trump's political strengths, love this one. So we're looking down the barrel at the midterms.

00:17:44.500 Before the midterms though, there's a fight happening in Congress right now, and it's a fight

00:17:48.320 over government funding. And it looks like we're going to have a government shutdown by October 1st.

00:17:53.420 So the Democrats are obstructing spending. And so they're, they're headed for a shutdown. Okay.

00:18:01.780 Republicans tend to be blamed by, for government shutdowns. That's the conventional wisdom. So

00:18:06.840 the Democrats are saying, all right, we're going to shut down the government. Republicans are going

00:18:09.660 to take the blame and, and that's going to help us. Okay. Trump loves a good game of chicken and Trump

00:18:17.600 says, okay, you want to shut down the government? That's fine. Not only will we

00:18:23.260 furlough federal employees during the shutdown, which is to say, we'll temporarily send them home

00:18:27.520 from work. And then whenever we resolve the shutdown, we'll, and we'll bring them back and

00:18:30.840 we'll probably give them back pay. And it's a little more expensive, but whatever. The White 1.00

00:18:34.500 House is saying that they will respond to the government shutdown by permanently firing a bunch

00:18:41.840 of the federal workforce. It's a reduction in force plan that was just sent out to the federal

00:18:46.680 agencies. If Congress won't pass the spending bill by October 1st, Trump's reaction, in other words,

00:18:53.020 is make my day, go ahead, go ahead, make my day. And I think it's going to work. I think it's going

00:19:02.600 to work because right now the Democrats have nothing. They have nothing. America, most Americans blame

00:19:11.860 them. Democrats have the highest unfavorability rating they've ever had. Democrats are not trusted

00:19:20.620 on pretty much any issue. So go ahead, screw it up some more. What? You think you have the wind at

00:19:30.000 your sails? You lost the whole government last November. You lost the whole government last November.

00:19:36.380 Republicans were given by the voters, a unified government, and they already had the Supreme

00:19:42.640 Court because of previous elections. And you would think that your numbers would increase

00:19:49.240 over the ensuing eight, nine months. They've gotten worse. So Trump's saying you want to shut down the

00:19:55.760 government? Awesome. You've now made it easier for me to do one of the things I promised to the voters

00:20:01.500 that I would do. Namely, fire you guys working in the federal bureaucracy. So cool. Can't wait.

00:20:08.140 It's awesome. Okay. See ya. It gets back to what Trump said to Zelensky in the Oval Office. He said,

00:20:17.080 you don't have the cards. What are you doing? You don't have any cards. You have nothing.

00:20:22.240 You are so desperate right now that you're murdering innocent non-office holders, just innocent

00:20:33.660 civilians who are successfully bringing even more voters over to the American right. And your

00:20:41.080 terrorism is being acknowledged even by some on your own side. And your terrorism is making you look

00:20:47.480 even worse. So go ahead. Go ahead and make my day. Speaking of terrorism that seems to be coming

00:20:55.640 from the left, we have some new information. This is coming out from the FBI, Kash Patel posting this.

00:21:01.660 What do we find out now? We know that the shooter showed up to the ICE facility. He was on an adjacent

00:21:08.400 rooftop using a rifle to shoot. It hearkened back to the assassination of Charlie Kirk just a couple of

00:21:16.860 weeks ago. Uh, also because we know that the shooter wrote anti-ICE. So wrote something on the

00:21:23.220 bullets, much like in the assassination of Charlie Kirk from the radical leftist. And in this case,

00:21:27.960 he wrote anti-ICE. What else do we know? We know that the, the perp, the guy who did it downloaded a

00:21:33.780 document titled Dallas County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management containing a list

00:21:38.180 of DHS facilities. So he was, he was obviously targeting DHS. He conducted multiple searches of

00:21:42.680 ballistics and the Charlie Kirk shot video between, uh, September 23rd and 24th. So you might be tempted

00:21:49.680 to say, well, everyone saw that horrific video. Yeah, but he was looking at it right before he levied

00:21:55.080 this attack and he was looking up ballistics. We know that between August 19th and 24th, he searched

00:22:01.180 apps that track the presence of ICE agents. Hold on, record scratch, freeze frame. There are apps

00:22:07.800 that track the presence of ICE agents. Those need to be taken off the app stores immediately. And if

00:22:13.380 they're not taken off of the app stores, then the government needs to bring the full weight of its

00:22:17.800 power on Apple and on Google for hosting those apps, which encourage forms of terrorism.

00:22:27.040 One of the handwritten notes recovered from this, this shooter reads quote, hopefully this will give

00:22:32.620 ICE agents real terror to think, is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof? So I'm not even coming

00:22:39.580 to a firm conclusion on who this guy is and what his motives are. All of the evidence says that he

00:22:47.020 was a leftist. Ken Klippenstein has an article about this, which actually argues that he didn't

00:22:51.840 have a strong political motive either way and talks to friends and say, oh, he was, he was just kind of

00:22:56.920 ironic or he was just, I don't know, he was, he was just in it for the lulls or whatever, kind of

00:23:01.540 downplaying his political motives. But even they say, no, but he didn't like Trump, you know, and

00:23:06.420 there was some sincerity even when he was joking around. And one of his video game usernames was

00:23:11.540 hashtag impeachment. So all of the evidence that we have from the ICE shooting, all of it, without

00:23:18.380 exception. We all, we also know he voted in a Democrat primary in 2020. So all of the evidence

00:23:24.880 that we have says that he was on the left. How did MSNBC cover it? We'll get to that in one

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00:24:49.940 Today. Turning to very, very bad journalism. After all of this information has been coming out

00:24:57.920 about the shooter at the ICE facility, here's how MSNBC covered it.

00:25:03.180 You have Director Patel putting out information that is clearly immediately trying to assign blame.

00:25:11.020 And I don't think we know enough, and I don't think the FBI quite knows enough yet,

00:25:14.660 what the motivation is here. Does it look like there may be a political angle to this

00:25:20.280 based on the recovered evidence? For sure. Do I think there's trends that are moving in that

00:25:25.540 direction that we could see more violence emerging from the different sides of the political spectrum?

00:25:30.800 Absolutely. But we have not seen in this case yet, and even not in the Charlie Kirk assassination,

00:25:38.300 a really clear, definable ideology or motive.

00:25:45.040 I was simply going to laugh until that last line. When he says, well, we just really don't,

00:25:49.840 we don't see any motives here. It's not clear what the shooter's politics are. Well, I don't know,

00:25:54.480 he shot up an ICE facility, and he wrote anti-ICE on there, and his screen name was hashtag

00:25:58.420 impeachment, and he voted in the Democrat primary. And I think we can deduce his politics. But I'm less

00:26:06.280 inclined to laugh because he said the same thing about the Charlie Kirk shooter. Charlie Kirk shooter,

00:26:11.300 who confessed his motives, reportedly, who wrote far left-wing slogans on the bullets that he used

00:26:20.380 to murder Charlie, who murdered Charlie in the first place, one of the most prominent right-wingers

00:26:23.820 in the country, and who confessed his ideological motives, reportedly, allegedly, to his trans-furry

00:26:31.680 boyfriend. And this guy, that wasn't just some random bum. He was a particular bum. He's not just

00:26:38.960 a random bum. He's MSNBC's security and intelligence analyst, Christopher O'Leary,

00:26:45.200 saying something so powerfully dumb that it is a wonder. And I have a low expectation of MSNBC,

00:26:57.220 of course, as do we all. But that's shocking even to me. Christopher O'Leary, MSNBC. Christopher O'Leary

00:27:06.120 is either completely ignorant, completely like wind whistling through his ears, does not have synapses

00:27:17.060 firing, has not read anything, might not have functioning senses with which to perceive the world

00:27:24.560 from which we can form conceptions and rational thought. Either completely devoid of that,

00:27:32.460 or he's a liar. And I think the charitable conclusion is that he's a liar. I think that's

00:27:40.820 the nicest thing I can say about him in this context. But people will believe it. This is why

00:27:49.300 matters. This is why we can't just totally laugh at this. I know people who believe that. I know

00:27:56.340 people who watch the news, like that kind of news, the fake news, who believe that, who are

00:28:03.100 professionals, who go to jobs, who pay their rent and their mortgage, who are not just vagrants living

00:28:12.980 on the street. They're not lunatics in padded cells. They're people who, by all appearances,

00:28:17.760 can get along in polite society. And they believe that complete nonsense because a guy in a suit and

00:28:25.060 a tie lied to them on television. That's a big problem. That's a big, it's, I've never seen a

00:28:34.140 clearer example of it. That's a big, big problem. And they're, I'm not saying that the government should

00:28:40.120 go in and shut it down. If we're talking about some random cable channel, broadcast television

00:28:44.140 is a different story. But I'm not, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying there has to be some consequence

00:28:49.240 to that. These, these people should be shunned from the political conversation, I suppose.

00:28:59.520 The, the, that guy has no place in a political conversation.

00:29:03.360 He, he either does not possess the requisite knowledge or is a fraud, a, a, a peddler of

00:29:13.560 fraud, a counselor of fraud, as Dante would, would call Ulysses in the divine comedy. No good. So

00:29:22.240 these people are so fringed out that, that it's being reflected in polls, like quite clearly in polls.

00:29:28.020 Meanwhile, Trump claims the center. And this story really, really got me. Trump on a prominent

00:29:36.720 issue that we haven't talked about for a couple of weeks is asked a question about the Israel-Palestine

00:29:40.820 conflict and specifically whether or not he's going to allow Israel to annex the West Bank, not Gaza,

00:29:48.140 not parts of Southern Syria, not all the other places that Israel has, has taken or taken back,

00:29:52.400 but the West Bank, where Israel has encouraged settlements and which, which some have suggested

00:29:58.780 Israel would annex outright. Here's his answer. 0.93

00:30:02.100 Did you promise leaders this week that you would not allow Israel to annex the West Bank? Is that 0.77

00:30:06.500 something that you said? I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. No, I will not allow it. 0.84

00:30:11.640 It's not going to happen. Did you speak with Netanyahu about this directly? Yeah, but I'm not going to

00:30:15.180 allow it, whether I spoke to him or not. I did, but I'm not allowing Israel to annex the West Bank.

00:30:20.300 There's been enough. It's time to stop now, okay? Yes, please.

00:30:26.140 What's so amazing about Trump's reaction is what he's just articulated is the least popular view

00:30:33.600 on the Israel-Palestine conflict. And it happens to be precisely my view that I have articulated for

00:30:40.040 a very long time at this point, years at this point. Namely, you've got two sides. The Israel at 0.95

00:30:50.020 all costs, Zionism, do or die side, and the people who stub their toes in the morning and think it's 0.53

00:30:55.140 some dastardly Jew in Tel Aviv. Those tend to be the two sides. The one side that says Israel is the 1.00

00:31:02.400 most moral nation ever, the most moral army that's never done anything wrong, that's not sus at all,

00:31:07.360 and that needs to conquer every nation around it. Or the side that somehow manages to connect

00:31:14.300 every problem that has ever existed in the history of the world to the nation state of Israel founded

00:31:19.180 in 1948. And my view is, I broadly support Israel. I recognize that we have had roughly 1400 years of

00:31:29.200 conflict with political Islam. Broadly support Israel. But I've got some questions about Israel's 0.51

00:31:37.920 misconduct. And I don't think that Israel's national interest and the American national 1.00

00:31:43.180 interest are synonymous on every issue. And I think that in some cases, the state of Israel needs to be

00:31:47.660 restrained. It's the least popular view, because you get hit from both sides all the time. But that's

00:31:53.800 my view, and it happens to be correct. And it's the president's view as well. And why does this matter,

00:31:59.280 even beyond the Israel-Palestine conflict? Because it means that Trump has truly staked out

00:32:06.240 the center of American politics. He is the center now. Imagine telling someone that 10 years ago.

00:32:12.820 Imagine telling someone in either party that 10 years ago, when Trump was seen as this radical,

00:32:18.040 extreme, fringe, crazy clown show. And then he's the center. He's the norm. He's the middle.

00:32:30.080 The further you are from Trump's position on at least many or most issues, I guess,

00:32:36.240 the further you are to the fringes. That's an amazing political accomplishment. It's very good

00:32:41.740 for the country. Speaking of foreign affairs, there's just one story I have to get to.

00:32:47.720 China has just been caught digitally altering a film to turn a gay couple straight.

00:32:54.440 I love this. This story is from The Guardian, I think. Yeah, yeah. Horror film digitally altered

00:33:01.280 in China to make a gay couple straight. And you can see right here, here's the original. It's just 0.98

00:33:06.040 a couple of fellas. And then here, they turn the shorter fella into a chick. Actually, not a bad 1.00

00:33:11.640 looking lady. And so this was caught. It's a movie called Together, starring Dave Franco and Alison

00:33:19.200 Brie, released into certain theaters in China on September 12th. And in this one scene where

00:33:26.100 the Chinese concluded that they're, you know, it was a little too lavender. They just changed it and

00:33:33.860 made it a chick. And this is probably not great for art in the sense that you don't want to ex

00:33:41.760 post-facto alter someone else's art to fit your own narrative. But broadly speaking,

00:33:48.660 I'm here for it. I'm here for it. Do people still say based? Based is like old now, right? It's

00:33:56.480 kind of defunct lingo. But is that, if we could still say it, is that, how do you say based in

00:34:01.000 Mandarin? Or Cheshuan? I don't, this is, it's not, hear me out. Hear me out. Before we had

00:34:14.700 all this craziness in movies, we had something called the Hays Code. Okay, the Hays Code existed

00:34:19.040 from 1934 to 1968 in the United States. And it was self-censorship. It was a set of standards

00:34:25.500 that the film industry imposed upon itself. It was promoted by Catholics, by the way. It was a 1.00

00:34:30.820 largely a Catholic initiative, but it spread throughout the film industry.

00:34:36.160 The films that were created during the Hays Code were the best films ever made.

00:34:43.600 There were some good films that were made afterward, but year for year, the best films ever made were

00:34:50.420 made during the Hays Code with self-censorship. Citizen Kane, Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind,

00:34:58.840 Casablanca, Streetcar Named Desire, like the greatest movies ever made. I guess The Godfather

00:35:04.920 came later. The Godfather and me, myself, and Irene came later. But other than those two,

00:35:08.420 the greatest movies ever made were made during this period of self-censorship. There was a period

00:35:12.360 in Hollywood before the Hays Code. The movies that were made then were freaky, pervy trash as well.

00:35:17.620 Movies like that, movies like freaks. You know, there's that scene that kind of goes around sometimes

00:35:20.980 where it's a bunch of, like, deformed people and midgets and, like, whores and things. And it's a 1.00

00:35:27.820 oogle-goggle, oogle-goggle. One of us is freaky. It's really weird, freaky stuff. And it's not high

00:35:32.680 art. So I'm not saying that what China's doing here, what removing the LGBT LMNOP stuff after the

00:35:40.460 fact is the best idea. That does compromise artistic integrity. But it's probably the second best idea.

00:35:46.220 The best idea would be to reestablish standards in movies, ideally self-imposed standards.

00:35:53.520 The libs say we can't do that because that would limit artistic expression or whatever.

00:35:57.960 In reality, though, it would make the art better.

00:36:02.960 Who writes better poetry? The weirdos who show up to slam poetry slams and just kind of freestyle rap,

00:36:12.420 or Shakespeare with rhyme and meter. Which kind of poetry is better?

00:36:18.840 If you're being honest, every single person would say the poetry with limits. Limits are what make the art.

00:36:25.000 It's true throughout our lives. So anyway, two cheers for China. Two cheers for China on the movie. 0.91

00:36:30.160 Maybe we could learn a lesson from them.

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00:37:40.820 My favorite comment yesterday from Adder0130 says,

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00:38:27.620 Hello.

00:38:29.160 I feel that at Charlie's memorial also indicated a shift in the Republican Party by introducing Christianity into politics again. 0.79

00:38:38.500 I hope we see the party shift from focusing so heavily on fiscal policy, but how to integrate Christian charity as well.

00:38:46.580 This brings me to my question, which is, what is the government's role for helping the elderly and disabled?

00:38:52.880 I am particularly interested in this because I have become the mother of a son with severe cerebral palsy.

00:38:59.940 And in my state of Arizona, services for disabled people, especially children, continues to be cut, using money as the excuse.

00:39:07.580 I feel that as Christians, isn't it our call to help the least of these?

00:39:11.760 What is the conservative position on supporting people with disabilities?

00:39:16.240 Thank you, and God bless.

00:39:18.500 Well, the conservative position is different from the libertarian position.

00:39:22.880 And so the two get conflated because of the conservative libertarian alliance after World War II that still continues to exist.

00:39:30.440 And that I'm not totally opposed to because there just aren't that many conservatives and there certainly aren't that many libertarians.

00:39:35.220 So they decided as a prudential matter to team up.

00:39:38.060 Sometimes that has good results, sometimes weaker results.

00:39:40.340 But the conservative response is, yes, of course.

00:39:44.660 Of course we have a responsibility in political community to take care of people who cannot take care of themselves.

00:39:50.360 The only question then is, not out of principle, but out of prudence, how is that best done?

00:39:58.820 And here I think the conservative answer is through subsidiarity.

00:40:02.380 So it is better to take care of these people at the most local level possible.

00:40:06.320 But this does not preclude some kind of national program.

00:40:10.460 It's just that a national program will work better if the charity and the care for these people disabled or elderly or frail in some other way is taking care of at more local levels.

00:40:23.720 At the township level, the county, state, then federal government level.

00:40:28.200 But yes, the conservative response is, in principle and in practice, we have a responsibility to take care of these people.

00:40:39.260 The libertarian response would be that the government absolutely does not have a responsibility and should not take care of these people.

00:40:45.200 Because we need to spur the invisible hand of the free market to take care of these people through charity that will be crowded out if the government does anything.

00:40:55.160 But the invisible hand is providence for atheists. 0.89

00:40:59.000 The invisible hand is actually, as Adam Smith describes it, is not all that far off from providence.

00:41:05.400 Adam Smith is writing in a more clearly religious way than the secular people today who have made an idol out of free markets and individualism.

00:41:13.520 Okay, next question.

00:41:15.200 Good morning, Michael.

00:41:16.360 I'm a college student and engaged to my high school sweetheart of four years, and I was raised Baptist.

00:41:21.920 Recently, I've done research into early church history to be better equipped to defend my faith.

00:41:26.720 And in doing so, I've unexpectedly realized that all roads might just lead to Rome.

00:41:31.660 I've brought this up in conversation with my fiancé and older and younger men in my church, and everyone is very weary about my interest in the Catholic Church.

00:41:39.860 My question is, what should I do?

00:41:41.440 Should I listen to the people I trust and avoid it or pursue this?

00:41:44.360 Obviously, if I were to convert, it could hinder my future marriage and relationships with my church friends.

00:41:50.260 However, my faith in Jesus gives me confidence that if I'm in search of the truth, I will find it.

00:41:55.300 Thanks.

00:41:55.620 Really good question and many such cases.

00:41:58.880 A friend of mine, Joshua Charles, was quite ardently Protestant, and he decided he was going to read the church fathers, the early Christian writers, to prove that Catholicism was not biblical and was contrary to the spirit of the apostolic age and the early Christians.

00:42:14.880 And what did he find?

00:42:16.300 He found out the exact opposite.

00:42:17.880 He found out that his own religious practices were an aberration and deviated from early Christian practice.

00:42:25.380 And he became Catholic.

00:42:26.700 And now he runs a group called Eternal Christendom, which is terrific.

00:42:29.380 So many such cases, just St. John Henry Newman made this point.

00:42:32.280 He also, he was Protestant.

00:42:33.400 He was rather ardently anti-Catholic in many respects, and he has a line.

00:42:40.040 It's very provocative.

00:42:41.040 This is no offense intended to our many Protestant friends, but he said, to become deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.

00:42:47.280 So, again, I'm not saying that's what you're going to find.

00:42:51.280 I've got many friends and some family members who have remained Protestant, but that's what he found. 0.97

00:42:57.300 He was a Protestant, then he became a Catholic priest, and then he became a Catholic saint.

00:43:00.740 So, anyway, that's what you're finding.

00:43:02.680 And I don't think anybody, anybody of good faith would tell you not to pursue the truth, right?

00:43:09.760 So, you're pursuing the truth as you see it, and you feel it's leading you across the Tiber to Rome.

00:43:14.940 So, I think that's good.

00:43:16.120 You're worried it's going to mess up your future marriage.

00:43:17.920 I don't think that's true.

00:43:18.660 You're going to be the head of your household, so I think you could probably persuade your wife.

00:43:22.720 As for some church friends, I hope it doesn't mess up your friendships with your old church.

00:43:28.420 I hope it doesn't.

00:43:29.820 In some cases, it will.

00:43:31.580 Friends come and go sometimes in life.

00:43:33.540 Even if we try to maintain all of our friendships, that's just what happens.

00:43:36.740 So, I hope, you know, if they're going to ditch you over that, they probably weren't great friends in the first place.

00:43:42.160 But, anyway, you're not asking me.

00:43:45.580 You're not asking me for permission.

00:43:47.280 I think you've already come to your conclusion, and maybe you just want a little encouragement in that, which I do encourage you.

00:43:52.140 Okay, next question.

00:43:52.740 Hi, Michael.

00:43:54.240 I'm 21.

00:43:55.200 I just graduated college, and I'm living in Utah.

00:43:57.680 My friends and I went to Charlie Kirk's event last week, and we were standing pretty close up.

00:44:03.400 Um, we were obviously pretty scarred and traumatized by that event.

00:44:08.320 And after a few days of grieving, I decided I don't want to be quiet anymore.

00:44:14.040 I want to be open and proud about my love for my country, about my politics, about my love for Jesus.

00:44:20.400 But now I feel like such a squish this week at work. 1.00

00:44:23.440 A trans co-worker tried to talk politics with me, and I just kind of brushed them off and left because I didn't want to get in a big, huge fight at work, create a toxic work environment, or get reported or anything.

00:44:36.920 But, yeah, I just feel like a squish for backing down. 1.00

00:44:38.780 I want to stand strong but also keep the peace at work.

00:44:41.700 What would you have done?

00:44:42.800 Love the show.

00:44:43.360 Thanks, Michael.

00:44:45.020 Good questions.

00:44:45.900 Tough question because, first of all, I wouldn't be too hard on yourself.

00:44:48.900 You're processing a very serious trauma that was both a national trauma and, for you, a personal trauma.

00:44:52.960 So, you know, it's okay to freeze up a little bit.

00:44:55.000 I get it.

00:44:56.300 However, what should you do in the future?

00:44:58.580 Because you're dealing with a liberal co-worker, and the liberals are always flamboyant about their politics, and they never shut up about it in the workplace and all sorts of inappropriate places.

00:45:06.900 And on top of that, you're dealing with someone who's profoundly mentally ill and potentially violent.

00:45:11.060 So, what do you do?

00:45:14.420 If it were me, I'll just tell you what I do.

00:45:16.340 I'm open about my politics when asked about it.

00:45:21.400 I don't volunteer at all the time.

00:45:23.960 I mean, it's kind of, you know, I have a public platform, so it comes with the territory.

00:45:27.820 But before I had a public platform, I wouldn't volunteer at all the time.

00:45:30.520 But if it was asked of me, I would tell people the truth in a respectful way.

00:45:34.340 That can have consequences.

00:45:38.180 I just want you to know that.

00:45:39.160 Before you go into it, I just want you to know, you could lose your job over that.

00:45:42.100 It would be unfair.

00:45:42.980 It would be unjust.

00:45:44.180 You could suffer violence from a Looney Tune.

00:45:47.340 That could happen.

00:45:48.380 So, you should know that, at least, going in.

00:45:50.620 But if you've determined that you are, in fact, going to be open about your views and be honest,

00:45:56.700 then I do have a little bit of advice on this, which is don't try to go halfway.

00:46:03.000 Don't say, well, no, look, I kind of like, I mean, I'm a Republican, but not that kind of Republican.

00:46:07.300 I mean, I just, I think it's better to go all the way.

00:46:12.460 You're a Republican?

00:46:13.640 Oh, me?

00:46:14.340 I barely would call myself a Republican.

00:46:15.840 I'm to the right of Mussolini.

00:46:18.220 What are you talking about?

00:46:19.240 Me?

00:46:19.540 Oh, no, no, no.

00:46:20.180 I'm not just a Republican.

00:46:21.340 I'm as Republican as it gets.

00:46:23.520 I find Trump to be far too centrist.

00:46:26.640 Oh, I do.

00:46:27.140 What can I tell you?

00:46:27.840 I don't want to go back to 2012.

00:46:29.800 I want to go back to 1220. 1.00

00:46:32.180 I find it's, one, it stops all kind of negotiation and all kind of awkwardness because you're just laying it on the table.

00:46:39.980 You're saying there is, I am so far right.

00:46:42.960 I've so concluded various things about the world.

00:46:50.040 You don't, don't try to pick me apart, have I?

00:46:53.420 I'm solid.

00:46:54.820 It's, it's kind of a challenge to them.

00:46:56.660 And I think it's impressive.

00:46:57.960 But it's kind of like when you're, when you're trying to pick up a chick or something, you know, I guess it's not good advice for you because you're a lady. 0.98

00:47:02.640 But with a guy who wants to take out a girl, there's two ways you can do it.

00:47:07.180 You know, you say like, hey, um, hi, Shelly.

00:47:09.200 Uh, I think you're, you're kind of, I like your shirt today, Shelly.

00:47:13.200 And can you, would you sometime like to go get a cup of coffee?

00:47:17.200 You know, and you're kind of caving into yourself.

00:47:19.480 Or you can have a little bit of that riz, you know, a little bit of that Mediterranean swag. 0.96

00:47:24.060 And you're going to say, Shelly, you are, I can't, I don't think I can live another day if we don't get coffee.

00:47:32.900 Like, I don't think, I won't be able to sleep.

00:47:36.140 You, I, we have to, it must be done.

00:47:39.860 I, I can't, I can't think of nothing else.

00:47:41.980 And I need coffee and you're here with me and we have to go do it now.

00:47:46.860 She can still say no, but it's just, you've got a little more confidence.

00:47:50.180 It's harder to say no.

00:47:51.160 It's harder, it's harder not to like that.

00:47:52.600 You know, it's hard, you're so open about it.

00:47:55.940 So that, that's, that would be my advice.

00:47:57.960 And if you ever want to pick up a chick, that's good advice too.

00:47:59.840 Okay, there's more to get to.

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00:48:22.600 I think it's good advice too.

00:48:25.940 Yeah.

00:48:26.960 Therefore, I will still be with you once.

00:48:30.060 That's, that's good advice.

00:48:33.940 I think this is going to be too clever.

00:48:35.900 I think this is about it.

00:48:36.300 I think this is a good advice.

00:48:37.800 I think this is about it.

00:48:39.040 I think this is a good advice.

00:48:40.440 I don't have any advice on all kinds of things.

00:48:41.220 What are you doing?

00:48:43.020 I really want to mean to have a book I am the dark side.

00:48:44.780 I feel...

00:48:45.820 I feel like you're going anywhere.

00:48:47.260 ...

00:48:47.820 I feel like it.

00:48:48.460 I don't even know where stuffed.

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